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She
put
her
kerosene
lamp
aside
and
sat
in
her
cabin
after
dark
by
the
light
of
a
candle
,
listening
to
the
music
of
a
small
portable
radio
.
She
hunted
for
symphony
concerts
and
twisted
the
dial
rapidly
past
whenever
she
caught
the
raucous
syllables
of
a
news
broadcast
;
she
did
not
want
any
news
from
the
city
.
Don
t
think
of
Taggart
Transcontinental
she
had
told
herself
on
her
first
night
in
the
cabin
don
t
think
of
it
until
you
re
able
to
hear
the
words
as
if
they
were
"
Atlantic
Southern
"
or
"
Associated
Steel
,
"
But
the
weeks
passed
and
no
scar
would
grow
over
the
wound
.
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It
seemed
to
her
as
if
she
were
fighting
the
unpredictable
cruelty
of
her
own
mind
.
She
would
lie
in
bed
,
drifting
off
to
sleep
then
find
herself
suddenly
thinking
that
the
conveyor
belt
was
worn
at
the
coaling
station
at
Willow
Bend
,
Indiana
,
she
had
seen
it
from
the
window
of
her
car
on
her
last
trip
,
she
must
tell
them
to
replace
it
or
they
and
then
she
would
be
sitting
up
in
bed
,
crying
,
Stop
it
!
and
stopping
it
,
but
remaining
awake
for
the
rest
of
that
night
.
She
would
sit
at
the
door
of
the
cabin
at
sunset
and
watch
the
motion
of
the
leaves
growing
still
in
the
twilight
then
she
would
see
the
sparks
of
the
fireflies
rising
from
the
grass
,
flashing
on
and
off
in
every
darkening
corner
,
flashing
slowly
,
as
if
holding
one
moment
s
warning
they
were
like
the
lights
of
signals
winking
at
night
over
the
track
of
a
Stop
it
!
It
was
the
times
when
she
could
not
stop
it
that
she
dreaded
,
the
times
when
,
unable
to
stand
up
as
in
physical
pain
,
with
no
limit
to
divide
it
from
the
pain
of
her
mind
she
would
fall
down
on
the
floor
of
the
cabin
or
on
the
earth
of
the
woods
and
sit
still
,
with
her
face
pressed
to
a
chair
or
a
rock
,
and
fight
not
to
let
herself
scream
aloud
,
while
they
were
suddenly
as
close
to
her
and
as
real
as
the
body
of
a
lover
:
the
two
lines
of
rail
going
off
to
a
single
point
in
the
distance
the
front
of
an
engine
cutting
space
apart
by
means
of
the
letters
TT
the
sound
of
the
wheels
clicking
in
accented
rhythm
under
the
floor
of
her
car
the
statue
of
Nat
Taggart
in
the
concourse
of
the
Terminal
.
Fighting
not
to
know
them
,
not
to
feel
them
,
her
body
rigid
but
for
the
grinding
motion
of
her
face
against
her
arm
,
she
would
draw
whatever
power
over
her
consciousness
still
remained
to
her
into
the
soundless
,
toneless
repetition
of
the
words
:
Get
it
over
with
.
There
were
long
stretches
of
calm
,
when
she
was
able
to
face
her
problem
with
the
dispassionate
clarity
of
weighing
a
problem
in
engineering
.
But
she
could
find
no
answer
.
She
knew
that
her
desperate
longing
for
the
railroad
would
vanish
,
were
she
to
convince
herself
that
it
was
impossible
or
improper
.
But
the
longing
came
from
the
certainty
that
the
truth
and
the
right
were
hers
that
the
enemy
was
the
irrational
and
the
unreal
that
she
could
not
set
herself
another
goal
or
summon
the
love
to
achieve
it
,
while
her
rightful
achievement
had
been
lost
,
not
to
some
superior
power
,
but
to
a
loathsome
evil
that
conquered
by
means
of
impotence
.
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She
could
renounce
the
railroad
,
she
thought
;
she
could
find
contentment
here
,
in
this
forest
;
but
she
would
build
the
path
,
then
reach
the
road
below
,
then
rebuild
the
road
and
then
she
would
reach
the
storekeeper
of
Woodstock
and
that
would
be
the
end
,
and
the
empty
white
face
staring
at
the
universe
in
stagnant
apathy
would
be
the
limit
placed
on
her
effort
.
Why
?
she
heard
herself
screaming
aloud
.
There
was
no
answer
.
Then
stay
here
until
you
answer
it
,
she
thought
.
You
have
no
place
to
go
,
you
can
t
move
,
you
can
t
start
grading
a
right
-
of
-
way
until
.
.
.
until
you
know
enough
to
choose
a
terminal
.
There
were
long
,
silent
evenings
when
the
emotion
that
made
her
sit
still
and
look
at
the
unattainable
distance
beyond
the
fading
light
to
the
south
,
was
loneliness
for
Hank
Rearden
.
She
wanted
the
sight
of
his
unyielding
face
,
the
confident
face
looking
at
her
with
the
hint
of
a
smile
.
But
she
knew
that
she
could
not
see
him
until
her
battle
was
won
.